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Passages similar to: The Conference of the Birds — Invocation
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The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (27)
In winter he scatters the silver snow; in autumn, the gold of yellow leaves.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 5 (2)
The seasons belong to him, nay, he is always in season (successful) who knowing this meditates on the fivefold Sâman as the seasons.
Book of Enoch
Chapter II (3)
Behold the summer and the winter, ⌈⌈how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it⌉⌉.
Book of Enoch
Chapter III (1)
Observe and see how (in the winter) all the trees ⌈⌈seem as though they had withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXII (16)
And these are the signs of the days which are to be seen on earth in the days of his dominion: sweat, and heat, and calms; and all the trees bear frui...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LX (18)
And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his chambers on account of his strength--There is a special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is ...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XL (7)
I am the Season, which cometh at its own will
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (85)
Before Thy burning throne the angels wait, Much-working, charged to do all things, for men. Thy young Spring shines, all prank'd with purple flowers;...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (69)
As is apparent in winter, when there is so hard cold or frost that the water becometh ice; though the sun shineth somewhat warm through all the cold...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXIV (1)
In that part of the youthful year wherein The Sun his locks beneath Aquarius tempers, And now the nights draw near to half the day, What time the...
Book of Enoch
Chapter C (12)
And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from descending upon you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and silver from you tha...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LX (17)
And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel.
Gospel of Philip
Sowing and Reaping (Sowing and Reaping)
Whoever sows in winter reaps in summer. Winter is the world, summer is the other, eternal realm. Let us sow in the world to reap in summer. And for...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXVII (4)
I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth: and thence comes forth hoar-frost, and days, seasons, and years...
Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XIV. (4)
Lifts the gay head, in snowy flowrets fair, And plays and dances to the gentle air; When lo! a whirlwind from high heav’n invades
Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XIV. (2)
“The shining circlets of his golden hair, Which ev’n the Graces might be proud to wear, Instarr’d with gems and gold, bestrow the shore
The Secret of the Golden Flower
A Magic Spell for the Far Journey (1)
Master Lii Tzu said: Yu Ch'ing has left behind him a magic spell for the Far Journey: Four words crystallize the spirit in the place of power. In the...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto VII (4)
Gold and fine silver, and scarlet and pearl-white, The Indian wood resplendent and serene, Fresh emerald the moment it is broken, By herbage and by...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 5 (1)
Let a man meditate on the fivefold Sâman as the seasons. The hiṅkâra is spring, the prastâva summer (harvest of yava, &c.), the udgîtha the rainy...
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Confirmatory Experiences During the Circulation of the Light (3)
Things by which other men are displeased, when I meet them, cannot cloud the brightness of the seed of the spirit. Yellow gold fills the house; the st...
Enuma Elish
Tablet IV (132)
And he made the North wind bear it away into secret places
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